What Governors Need To Know about Education Reform
What Governors Need To Know about Education Reform

Author: National Governors' Association, Washington, DC. Center for Policy Research

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Published: 1995

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 9781558772472

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This book offers 24 perspectives from educators, students, advocates, journalists, policymakers, and citizens on education reform and the importance of improving America's schools and school systems. Articles include the following: (1) "What Only a Governor Can Do" (Lamar Alexander); (2) "Governors and the National Education Goals" (Carroll A. Campbell, Jr.); (3) "The Touch of a Teacher" (Sharon M. Draper); (4) "We All Pay the Price of Children's Poverty" (Marian Wright Edelman); (5) "It Won't Fix Itself" (Chester E. Finn, Jr.); (6) "Getting Down in the Trenches" (Keith Geiger); (7) "Reforms That Failed and Reforms That Worked" (Ira Glass); (8) "Partners for Progress--Advocates for Change" (Joseph T. Gorman); (9) "Language Minority Students: Challenges and Promises" (Kenju Hakuta); (10) "Help Us Help Ourselves" (Darlene Hidalgo); (11) "A Demographer's View" (Harold L. Hodgkinson); (12) "Remembering 'The Forgotten Half'" (Harold Howe, II); (13) "Education Reform: Impertinent Issues and Pertinent Questions" (Sharon Lynn Kagan); (14) "Accepting Teachers as Experts" (Megan C. Lawson); (15) "Improving the Scientific Literacy of Teachers and Students" (Leon M. Lederman); (16) "Change in Public Schools" (Bertha O. Pendleton); (17) "Improving Education Performance" (Hilary Pennington); (18) "Making High School Count" (Lauren B. Resnick); (19) "The Challenge for New Governors: Leading Education Reform in the Late 1990s" (Richard W. Riley); (20) "Making Quality Count" (Roy Romer); (21) "The Public Looks at School Reform" (Albert Shanker); (22) "Up the Down Staircase" (Leila Sinclaire); (23) "Listening as a School Reform Strategy" (Deborah Wadsworth); and (24) "In Our Nation's Best Interest: Achieving Educational Excellence for Latinos" (Raul Yzaguirre). (LMI)

A Guide to Building Public Support for Education Reform
A Guide to Building Public Support for Education Reform

Author: National Governors' Association, Washington, DC.

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9781558772175

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This guidebook shows how governors and states have worked on engaging the public in education reform. It focuses on important strategies to consider during the process of building public support for education reform. It highlights state strategies for communicating about progress made toward achieving the National Education Goals and for promoting statewide systemic education reform. Suggestions include: (1) begin education reform with the facts; (2) include the public from the beginning; (3) recognize that change comes from the bottom up; (4) build momentum from a broad-based coalition; (5) know that reaching out requires resources; (6) prepare for the long haul; (7) avoid jargon; (8) use your policy and communications staff effectively; and (9) expect the unexpected. The experiences of four states--Colorado, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Florida--illustrate lessons learned from recent education-issue campaigns that were brought before the voters. The guide concludes with a discussion of a national campaign to increase public support for education improvement, the "Keep the Promise" campaign. (LMI)